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 simon c |
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October 27, 2005 11:40:23pm |
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Re: 'Movies' with no video? |
People are having trouble with the new movie import system - maybe too much trouble, indicating it's more difficult to use than the old one!
How many files like that have you seen? I've been making them dark after finding them, so there shouldn't be any still live that are more than 24-48 hours old.
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simon c |
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October 28, 2005 12:21:30pm |
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opensource_movies
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Re: 'Movies' with no video? |
I'm in the process of making all of these dark - they were already on my 'to check' process, so I don't think any are getting through the cracks - the just may be up for a day or two before they're made dark.
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Diana Hamilton |
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October 28, 2005 04:02:33am |
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Re: 'Movies' with no video? |
When I've come across those empties lately, I've been leaving them as I see them, thinking that the uploader will do "edit item" to add their content. Is that a poor supposition on my part?
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simon c |
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October 28, 2005 04:27:06am |
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Re: 'Movies' with no video? |
Diana - I would recommend making them dark, because most people who've done this don't put items in them later. Anyone who's had this problem - please reply to explain why you're having trouble!
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tracey pooh |
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October 28, 2005 02:57:26pm |
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Re: 'Movies' with no video? |
i don't recommend this tact -- to make the items
dark just because they don't have anything but XML in them.
case in point, i temporarily "undarked"
coffeehouse-Naomi-Ayala-Horses
year4animation
to take a look.
both only had XML, it's true, but both were "finished" by
users actions (vs. item being checked out for 48+ hours and getting checked in by the system)
and both items had the uploader go to the "/editxml/"
page and fill out more metadata.
this is indicative perhaps of the user being confused and clicking on "finished uploading", etc.
but if they got *this* far, it's likely they'd be able
to checkout the item later to add files.
-tracey, webmaster
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simon c |
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October 29, 2005 06:17:15am |
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opensource_movies
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Re: 'Movies' with no video? |
I disagree with this, and will take the conversation offline :)
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tracey pooh |
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November 10, 2005 05:22:05pm |
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Re: 'Movies' with no video? |
OK, I just dealt with another user having problems.
He was having problems using MSIE on Mac OS-X.
So I've updated the website to suggest that Mac users use
a regular FTP client since Mac doesn't support "drag and drop"
of files (it will just play the dropped item instead).
I've also added an explicit note that the users should use
their FTP client to change directory to the subdir that
is the name of their item.
I think this should help with the "empty items"!
I suspect that much of the confusion was due to dropping a file in a Mac MSIE browser as we instructed (and then it plays, instead of uploading) which made users think it was
playing while uploading.
let's see if the empties get less frequent.
I did talk directly with a user who was repeatedly checking out the item and trying to get content into it and checking back in (with no new files) (and the item only had .xml files in it), so it would seem that it would be nicer of us to leave "empty" items for now.
--tracey, webmaster
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tracey pooh |
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October 28, 2005 03:00:41pm |
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Re: 'Movies' with no video? |
more difficult than the old system?!
i'm, uh, not going to comment beyond that... 8-)
--tracey
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